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Beport on the Farm Prize Competition 
manure, and the rain falling on this portion is properly and 
separately drained away. There is a large covered manure- 
pit, which receives all the manure from cow-sheds, stables, pig- 
geries, boxes, &c. The whole of the urine from the buildings is 
collected, without admixture with water, and conveyed to a small 
tank in the covered manure-shed, and is pumped (by a wheel- 
pump) on to the manure under the shed as required. This is 
a most admirable arrangement, and one that is worthy of more 
general adoption. 
A feature in the construction of these buildings is that no 
perishable materials occupy any exposed position, and this re- 
duces to a minimum the necessary outlay on repairs — an impor- 
tant item in farm homesteads. The precise cost of the build- 
ings cannot be ascertained ; but Mr. Taylor states that, while 
acting as estate bailiff to Lord Cowper, ho made a point of pro- 
viding sufficient, substantial, and convenient buildings, exclusive 
of farmhouse and cottages, at a cost not exceeding 41. 10s. to 51. 
per acre of the holding, and that this amount was seldom reached. 
In addition to carting materials for the homestead, the 
tenant has laid 270 chains of fences, and made a hard road to 
the farm-buildings from the Nottingham and Alfreton turnpike, 
which he likewise keeps in repair. 
The usual rotation of crops on the farm consists of (1) roots, 
(2) barley, (3) seeds for two years, (4) wheat ; or (1) roots, 
(2) barley, (3) barley, (4) seeds, and (5) oats. The cropping for 
1888 was wheat 9 acres, barley 4G, cats 16, artificial grasses 
25, mangold 2, swedes 22, common tux'uips 4, cabbages 1^, 
tares 2^, and potatoes 6. 
The mixture of seeds for one year's ley consisted of 1 2 to 16 
lbs. of red clover, 2 lbs. alsike, ^ peck to 1 peck Italian rye- 
grass. For two years the mixture is 4 lbs. red clover, 4 lbs. 
white alsike, 4 lbs. cowgrass, 2 lbs. ribgrass, and 1 peck 
perennial ryegrass. 
It will be observed that I\Ir. Hanson grows a large pro- 
portion of barley, which is used for malting purposes in his 
brewery. He frequently finds the second crop of barley superior 
to the first for that purpose. The soil is better adapted for 
barley and root-growing than for other ci'ops, consisting of a 
rather sandy loam, overlying the new red sandstone, which in 
many places crops out on the surface. For his second barley 
crop Mr. Hanson largely uses artificial manure, consisting of 
2 cwt. superphosphate, and 1 to 1^ cwt. sulphate of ammonia. 
This treatment appeared to suit the barley crop admirably, as ifc 
all presented a capital appearance. For roots, of which Mr. 
Hanson had a most excellent plant, the manures were chiefly 
